For many years most of the serious multi-ops have multiple stations on
the same band. Only one of the stations is calling CQ but the others are
tuning or grabbing spots. Plus they have stations on the other bands as
well. The guys in eastern Europe and Russia are very good at this. Why
do you think the top Multi-Single stations in CQWW have 10-15 operators.
I'm sure they're not sitting around waiting to operate. I really think
this defeats the spirit of what Multi-Single should be. The only reason
we've pulled of some wins in CQWW DX CW at PJ4A is because we're getting
3 points for just about every contact vs the 1 point the big M/S
stations in EU get for working other EU stations. Download one of the
public logs one time. You will see they are working mostly other EU
stations with a sprinkling of NA and AS stations. It's the same for the
guys that go to the northern AF countries like EA8, CN8, CT3 etc... Many
times they also have more QSO's and multipliers than what we have.
Jeff
On 6/4/2021 10:10 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
Why Peter?
The very short recent youtube video I saw of a M/M-D demonstration I
believe the narrator
said something like "we currently have 3 stations on 20 meters".
It wasn't clear (to me) if they were all running, one was running, two were
running and if lockouts were
employed.
From:
https://cqwpx.com/rules.htm
"...4. Multi-Transmitter Distributed (MULTI-DISTRIBUTED): A maximum of six
transmitted signals, one per band at any one time, from stations in
different locations. All equipment (transmitters, receivers, amplifiers,
antennas, etc.) must be located in same DXCC entity and CQ Zone, including
remotely controlled equipment. Six bands may be activated simultaneously.
Use a separate serial number sequence for each band. Total output power of
each transmitted signal must not exceed 1500 watts. The Cabrillo log header
must include the following lines: CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP,
CATEGORY-STATION: DISTRIBUTED. Rules X.E, X.F and X.G do not apply to this
category...."
If they have one running station, they can have 2 or 3 mult hunters w/o
impacting on the runner.( or anyone else, incl me)
HOWEVER, they could potentially have 2 or even 3 runners......remember the
Caribbean station who did this until they were told they couldn't?
My concern, since I am not a M/M or even operate at one....is band real
estate...that's all.
VE9AA
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Voelpel [mailto:dj7ww@t-online.de]
Sent: June 4, 2021 10:08 AM
To: 'Mike Smith VE9AA'; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed stay
or g
Why, they are all on the same calling frequency when on 20m.
When a multiplier station calls a station they are on his frequency.
73
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces+dj7ww=t-online.de@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Mike Smith VE9AA
My concern, which seems not to be anyone elses (at least not yet), is
multiple stations on (say) 20m using a single callsign eating
up band real estate.
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